Building Materials Retail & Distribution Industry Competitors

Paneling, poles, planks, pilings, and all, North Pacific Group (NOR PAC) is building on the construction industry. The firm is one of North America's largest wholesale distributors of building materials. Employee-owned since the 1986 retirement of its founder, Doug David, NOR PAC distributes wood, steel, agricultural, and food products from more than 40 locations....

This company is ready, willing, and, well, you get it. Able Distributing Company supplies plumbing and heating products primarily to contractors in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin. It also provides related products and services through subsidiaries Able Technology and Able Field Services....

Acoustical Material Services (AMS) sells the materials builders need to put the roof over your head -- not to mention hold your whole house together. The company provides acoustical ceiling products, lath and plaster, drywall, doors, frames, and related components, as well as a variety of other construction supplies....

Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Alexander Lumber can tell you about 100 years of selling wood. More than a century, in fact. The family-owned company was established in 1891. Alexander Lumber conducts wholesale and retail sales of tree products from about 40 lumberyards in Illinois and Wisconsin....

Arthur Lumber Trading Company, which operates as Arthur A. Pozzi, Company, offers lumber, millwork, plywood, wood paneling, molding, and other building material products at wholesale prices. The company imports woods from around the world and exports its products to Asia and other areas....

Vinyl has never gone out of style at Associated Materials Incorporated (AMI). AMI makes and distributes vinyl siding and windows, as well as aluminum and steel siding, aluminum trim coil, and accessories. Products are sold primarily in the US and Canada, and bear such brand names as Alside, Gentek, and Revere....

Atlantic Plywood is a wholesale distributor of hardwoods and other mill products. The company supplies hardwood, softwood, and imported plywood products; medium density fiberboard; cabinet hardware; high-pressure laminates; hardboard; and other items to customers in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions....

Baltimore Door & Frame supplies wood and metal doors, door frames, and related hardware accessories. The company's inventory includes hollow metal doors and frames manufactured by Pioneer, detention doors, wood doors, exit devices, door closers, hinges, locks, and other goods....

Not all products from Beacon Roofing Supply (BRS) are over your head. One of North America's largest roofing materials distributors, the company operates more than 175 branches in about 35 US states and three Canadian provinces. BRS distributes some 10,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) to about 40,000 customers....

Hardware supplier Blish-Mize distributes more than 52,000 products to hardware stores, home centers, lumberyards, and paint stores in about a dozen states in the heartland of the US. Its catalog includes power tools and accessories, hand tools, lawn and garden products, plumbing supplies, hardware, fasteners, paint and paint sundries, heating and cooling products, electrical supplies, housewares, toys, and sporting goods....

You won't find many building products missing from BlueLinx. Through 80-plus warehouses, the company distributes more than 10,000 building products to some 11,500 customers. Structural products, including plywood, oriented strand board, and lumber, account for more than half of BlueLinx's revenues....

Buildbase wants builders to have all of their bases covered. A subsidiary of Grafton Group, BMB Buildbase operates about 90 builders merchant outlets in England, Scotland, and Wales; it also sells its products through a retail Web site....

Boise Cascade Holdings manufactures and distributes lumber, plywood, particleboard, and engineered products such as wood I-joists and laminated lumber. It also operates about 30 wholesale building material distribution centers throughout the US that sell a broad line of building materials, including those made by the company....

From pressboard to brads, and everything in between, Bradfords Building Supplies offers builders things to swing hammers at, with, and on. Operating through more than 25 branches in England, Bradfords Building Supplies provides contractors with appliances, bricks, decking, doors, electrical items, insulation, lumber, nails and screws, paint, plumbing and heating fixtures and equipment, roofing, safety wear, tools, and other construction or related materials....

Built-e wants to improve on the home improvement store. Doing business as Environmental Home Center, the company offers some 1,500 eco-friendly building materials and products. It operates an online store of its green building supplies, as well as a 15,000-sq.-ft....

Family-owned-and-run Burton Lumber & Hardware designs, makes, and installs truss and floor packages, wall panels, and doors (interior and exterior) from its facility in Salt Lake City. It also sells and installs Heatilator-brand fireplaces and building materials made by other companies....

C&L Supply helps companies become clean & lubed. The company sells plumbing supplies to maintenance companies for large high-rise buildings and hospitals. It specializes in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified products for sustainable buildings including waterless bathroom fixtures, no-touch sinks and hand dryers, and flow control valves....

If new home construction has you yelling "timber!," Carter has the answer. Carter Lumber owns more than 200 lumber and home-improvement stores in 10 states from Michigan to South Carolina. The company caters to both contractors and do-it-yourselfers, supplying them with lumber, plywood, roofing, windows, doors, plumbing and electrical products, heating equipment, tools, siding, and other products....

If you're in the wholesale lumber business you might be trying to keep up with the Johnsons. Cascade Forest Corporation, formed in 1983 by the Johnson family, is a wholesale lumber brokerage that designs, produces, trades, and supplies wood products primarily in the western US....

When South Florida residents need to rebuild, they call a contractor, and their contractor might very well call Causeway Lumber. Targeting professional builders as customers, the company manufactures and distributes building materials including hardware, lumber, plywood, reinforcing steel, and roof and floor trusses from stores in Arcadia, Bonita Springs, Fort Lauderdale, and Stuart....